Does anyone else get depressed sometimes FZ is long gone and though what he left was amazing we will never have more. Not only that but we'll never hear anymore of his insights into our modern world we live in.Listening to Hot Plate Heaven at the moment and the big MUSICAL moments seem so ALIVE. And I miss that, never saw him live. I would love to know what he would be doing now.

Him being dead for so long turns him into a myth I find on my days off of work I can spend hours reading/listening to interviews and music of his just to know more about him. I feel like a Scholar.

Whenever I hear Peaches En Regalia I feel so uplifted, there is no other music that vibrant and I'm worried there never will be.

I was very depressed when I first heard of his passing, especially since that happened in such a weird way (at a television quiz where the candidates of a team wear a mask of a person they're "being" and they have to guess who they "are", and then all of a sudden you see three Frank Zappas). But I'm a fan of classical music, and Mozart, Bach and Beethoven and my favourite Saint-Saëns, none of them are alive. At least with Frank, we know what his voice sounds like, we know for sure what he looked like, his motorics, and he still has 4 kids who are all talented in their own way, and at the moment 4 grand-kids. Mozart doesn't have living descendants (none of his surviving sons had kids). Saint-Saëns's two boys died within six weeks of each other, depressing the composer greatly. Beethoven may have had an illegitimate son but that's just guessing. Yes, I've been sad about never meeting Frank, but I still have many albums to listen to, concert recordings to watch and I've met Dweezil a few times. It's more than I can ask for from my heroes of classical music.

You hit a certain point in life where the loss of entertainment idols/icons pales in comparison to when you're family and friends start passing on what can start to feel like a non-stop bombardment. Enjoy life while you still have one to enjoy.

I can only imagine that FZ would have had a field day with the social and political environment over the last 20 years, from Lewinsky and Clinton's cigar, to the scam election of 2000, to 9/11. He would been ripping the Tea Baggers, conspiracy theorists, birthers, truthers and the whole gamut of nutjobs. We'll never know what FZ inspired comedy gold that would have led to.

Thankfully he was addicted to recording and left behind a huge treasure of music that at the current release rate, will be fruitful for decades to come, unless that Roxy thing and Road Tapes 2 get further delayed. Unfulfilled promises are pretty depressing aren't they?

I don't exactly get depressed about it. But I do feel a sense of longing for Frank's music. It's palpably finite. He would have accomplished even greater things in the last third of his life and we'll never get to hear it. I was lucky in seeing him play many times, and actually briefly meeting him once. Times were good whenever Frank was in town.......

_________________Everytime we picked a booger we'd flip it on this one winduh. Every night we'd contribute, 2, 3, 4 boogers. We had to use a putty knife, man, to get them damn things off the winduh. There was some goober ones that weren't even hard...

Everyone gets depressed about things to a certain extent now and then, it's part of being human. When I first heard of Frank's passing, I was on the couch watching tv when they broke in with the news. I threw the remote across the room and cried out, "No!", though I knew he was very ill. While talking to a friend later on, I broke down and had to hang up. A few days later, and I was fine...his family wasn't so lucky, I'm guessing. A few years later, I did become very depressed about my life, etc. and went into therapy---very helpful, as was the journaling my therapist suggested.

I just feel as if he is a real legend. Like a mythic amazing human who achieved so much in such a little time. When I realize his career was only 30 years but did sooo much in that time, music politics and more in many different styles it seems like the career of 10 musicians, business men and political punters. Knowing he was alive in my lifetime but I never knew of him at the time is depressing. I'm listening to Easy Meat at the moment, Tommy is going nuts on the keyboard and I know Frank and the crew is having so much damn fun and I will never get to experience that.

At least my other favorite band Megadeth, I have seen countless times.

i get depressed that the youngest generations dont have the opportunity to see Frank live. I envy everyone in the audience while watching Baby Snakes, just watching it makes me feel like i am really there then i get depressed when the reality is i am not

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